@owen @grampyfr Found this series of podcasts on modern music. Listened to the first one about tuning systems and found it quite fascinating. I'm always amazed at how much music I know about and what a miniscule fraction of what is going on that represents. Site's a little awkward, but there's a couple dozen episodes with transcripts and supplemental material. Cheers!
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/probes-9468?sort=date&order=asc
@B got around to listening to the epecode in question today. Thanks for sharing.
@owen Ah, yes, Ludemann! You turned me on to him a while ago and I have a couple of albums of his. Great stuff.
@B Some interesting stuff I haven't heard before in there. Loved the color of that really high EDO piano doing all that chromatic stuff with the orchestra. That dutch oregon was ugly as hell
@B 24 EDO is the most common alternate tuning system used by western composers. It's a lot more intuitive to learn because it keeps all the existing musical relationships in tact, but it's also less interesting for the same reason. I do like the jazzy stuff worth checking out this track:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5rbGuADh29UiU9v8KMRkJd?si=lWXgeLhUSn6UjfYqVgVjPg
I've also used quarter tones in my own writing this is from "Woodworks" and "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" respectively. Notated differently. Notice they're only ever used as passing tones, not a significant part of the harmonic language, although I did want the flute in woodworks to be a quarter tone flat.